Paraguay – World Travel

Northern-Paraguay-And-The-Chaco Concepcion Paraguay

WorldTravelDB.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:59:57 +0000

The addictive hustle and bustle of Chile’s second-most populous city, teeming with industry, port services and universities make ‘Conce’ worthy of a touchdown. While attractive it isn’t – earthquakes in 1939 and 1960 obliterated the historical buildings – downtown has pleasant plazas, pedestrian malls and guzzling nightlife, owed to the student population.

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Southern-Paraguay Encarnacion Paraguay

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Encarnación is a cut-rate shopping center, the heart of the Paraguayan Carnaval and the gateway to the nearby Jesuit ruins at Trinidad and Jesús. The old center used to function on the lower ground near the river. When the nearby Yacyretá Dam was constructed, businesses and offices relocated to higher ground in preparation of the flooding which was (and is yet) to occur. Years later, the sluice gates have not yet been opened. Currently occupying the old town among decaying public buildings is a massive tawdry bazaar. Among the chaos is the Fería Municipal market, great for a cheap eat. On higher ground, the pleasant and functional modern town has excellent shops, a pleasant plaza and modern facilities.

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Northern-Paraguay-And-The-Chaco Filadelfia Paraguay

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If Filadelfia were a painting, it would have been done by surrealist Salvador Dalí. This neat Mennonite community, the service and administrative center of Fernheim, resembles a suburb of Munich plonked in the middle of a red desert. Geometrically perfect homes line the streets in an orderly grid, with dusty roads and miles of Chaco wilderness extending endlessly beyond. The town lacks a real center; its soul is the giant cooperative which trades the cream of the Paraguayan crop – dairy products. Although there are indigenous day laborers from nearby pueblos, most of the town’s inhabitants are European descendants, and Guten tag is a regular greeting. It’s a captivating, if not a little strange, experience.

For information on the Mennonites, and everything from 15th-century coins and stuffed jaguars to colorful Nivaclé headdresses, visit the Unger Museum (Hindenburg s/n; admission free; 7-11:30am Mon-Fri) opposite Hotel Florida. Tours are possible in Spanish, German and English; or just get the keys from the helpful and knowledgeable owner, Sr Hartmut Wohlegemuth, at Hotel Florida.

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Northern-Paraguay-And-The-Chaco Paraguay

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The Gran Chaco is the place to escape the crowds and experience raw wilderness. This vast plain – roughly divided into the Low Chaco (west of Asunción), Middle Chaco (the Mennonite region) and High Chaco (low density thorny scrub to the north) – encompasses the entire western half of Paraguay and stretches into Argentina and Bolivia. During the rainy season large tracts become swampy plains, while in dry weather it’s an arid dustbowl with harsh thorn forest.

Although the Chaco accounts for over 60% of Paraguayan territory, less than 3% of the population actually lives here. Historically it was a refuge for indigenous hunter-gatherers; today, several indigenous groups continue to live here – some have their assigned regions, following the assignment of land in the middle Chaco to the Mennonite communities in the 1930s. Close to the Río Paraguay, campesinos (rural dwellers practicing subsistence agriculture) have built picturesque houses of palm logs while army bases and cattle estancias (extensive grazing establishments) inhabit the denser thorn forests of the high Chaco.

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Northern-Paraguay-And-The-Chaco Pedro-Juan-Caballero Paraguay

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Literally across the street from Ponta Porã in Brazil is the nondescript former shopping border town of Pedro Juan Caballero (‘PJC’). Don’t aim to get stranded here on a weekend or public holiday as it ain’t all ‘party hearty’; the only real reasons to shack up here are en route to/from Brazil or to visit the attractive Parque Nacional Cerro Corá.

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Southern-Paraguay Paraguay

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Paraguay’s southernmost region – east of the Río Paraguay – is home to some of the country’s most important historical sites. The Jesuit ruins, national parks, the largest dam in the world, and one of the continent’s busiest border crossings make this an eclectic and fascinating area to visit.

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